The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology

Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory," and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literature and jokes all to provide acute analyses of the complexities of contemporary ideology as well as a serious and sophisticated philosophy.

Author: Slavoj Zizek
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/05/2009
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 7.74h x 5.44w x 1.47d
ISBN13: 9781844673018
ISBN10: 1844673014
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Political
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Epistemology

About the Author
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.